Blacktrench

89 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blacktrench, from 55 m² to 121,138 m² (12.11 ha, 29.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 54 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Blacktrench in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 3 Mar 2026N/a

  Raising of low lying farmland by 1.5 meters over circa 1.9 hectares using inert subsoil and topsoil for agricultural purposes

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2660227

• 21 Mar 2024Refused

  of 18533 which consists of construction of a building comprising of 3 stables, tack room and store room on my land.

  Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 24100

• 13 Oct 2022Refused

  (A) construction of a storey and half type house, (B) construction of a garage/fuel store for domestic use (C) installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 221224

• 19 Oct 2020Conditional

  the reclamation of land through the raising of the existing ground levels by an average of 1m over an area of 2.19ha at the site with inert soil and stone for the purposes of land improvement with an agricultural/ equine end use and all other ancillary site works to facilitate the development,

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201226

• 9 Nov 2018Conditional

  (a) Constructing a new single storey extension to the side of existing dwelling and (b) Constructing a detached single storey garage to the rear of the site and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 181350

• 7 Aug 2018Conditional

  of a single storey extension to the side of existing bungalow and all ancillary site development works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 18955

• 4 May 2018Conditional

  construct a building comprising of 3 stables, tack room and store room on my land.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 18533

• 25 Aug 2017Conditional

  a) Constructing a new vehicular entrance to replace existing and b) Retaining a 2-storey dwelling, wastewater treatment system & percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17966

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Blacktrench.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Blacktrench.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Blacktrench.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2622 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

• Blacktrench, Naas9 sales

Name

Blacktrench

Area

973,586 m² (97.36 ha, 240.58 acres)

Civil parish

Oldconnell, and its townlands

Barony

Connell

Electoral division

Oldconnell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Oldconnell electoral division: 1,043 people in 308 households; 89% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barrettstown, Clongorey, Derreens, Lattensbog, Newhall

Placenames

Blacktrench on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.